Dana Bash Quotes

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

When I get nervous, I get word vomit.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

I don't know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I'm shaking in my pants.

I can't understand it myself - how nervous I was when I took the floor for 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I walk out with 50,000 people gathered in the Millennium Stadium to fight Mikkel Kessler in the unification fight for the super middleweight division in 2007, and I feel great... and here I am, wearing tight pants and Cuban heels, and freaking out.

When I started on 'Strictly,' I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

It's a horrible feeling to go in front of an audience when you don't feel right.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.